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Serratus posterior inferior
One of the serratus muscles of the back and thorax. The serratus posterior inferior muscle originates, together with latissimus dorsi, from the spinous processes of two lower thoracic vertebrae and the two upper lumbar vertebrae and it…
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- Thalassemia, beta Also known as thalassemia major .The clinical picture of this important type of anemia was first described in…
- Post-thrombotic syndrome The complications that may follow deep vein thrombosis (DVT). The complications after DVT may include…
- Neurone A variant spelling of neuron. Sometimes preferred in the UK, as in 'His suffering from motor neurone disease…
- Food-secure Referring to the situation when people do not need to live with hunger or fear starvation
- Y-linked A gene on the Y chromosome. A Y-linked gene is by necessity passed from father to son, since the Y chromosome…
- Nonbacterial prostatitis Prostatitis: Inflammation of the prostate not due to bacterial infection. The prostate is a walnut-sized…
- Zinsser disease Also called Brill-Zinsser disease, recrudescence of epidemic typhus years after the initial attack. The agent…
- Spasms, infantile See: Infantile spasms
- Endoscopic sphincterotomy An operation to cut the muscle between the common bile duct and the pancreatic duct. The operation uses a…
- Ear cleaning (yourself) Never put anything smaller than your elbow in your ear! Wax is not formed in the deep part of the ear canal…
- Muscle, adductor Any muscle that pulls a body part toward the midline of the body. For example, the adductor muscles of the…